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another jack rabbit, and a splendid Kit 

 seen to u'lvant.i^' over a lev.-! stretch ( .f prairie. The 



T hounds \\ eiv close behind the heels of tin- hare, then 

 followed tin- t\\" Bettert some distance behind, while half a 

 mile in tin- rear was tin- little water spaniel, running at lux 

 full s|M-'d. It was amusing to s-.- him so eager in tin- chase, 

 hiinl ; In- was no match f. >r tin- nimble hare and 

 th- tli-.-t fcH)t'.l houmls. T\\'i ..f tin- Intuuds were los 



ml. 1'iit th.- youngest and moat sleek k-j.t tin- 



I Is ,.f tin- Imiv. anl \v- f\]..-(-t.-.| ,-vi-ry iii'iui.-iit to see tin- 



hoini'l s.-i/..- tin- hind legs of tin- haiv. who wa> tlt-.-in^ for hi 

 lit'*-: i-\i-ry x.-cmi.l w- -x)"--t-d jack woiil<l droji. Init In- had a 

 knack of turning s.. Midl.-nlv that it thwart. -d tin- hound on 



lal occasions. This i-xcitin^ scrnc terminated by tin- liar.' 

 ami hound disappearing I'diind a slope near the railway. \\ 

 afterwards heard that poor luinny succumbed, as the railway 

 hands saw tin- do^ devouring a raMiit alongside of the railway 

 track on tln-ir way Inuin- from work. I w.-nt home and had sup- 

 p.-r with tin- farm-manager, who *ho\ved me over the farm and 

 ranches. While at sup|)er, a cowboy came in and reported that 

 -...mi- ( 'ree Indians had stolen a man-, and had gone west to- 

 \\ar-U Swift ('urreut. He \vas ordered to be up and after 

 t'n-m at day-lireak. and to take a brace of revolvers and his 

 swift horse. N. \t i-venin^ In- returned home safe with tin- 

 mare, having overtaken the Indians at Goose Lake, nearly 

 forty miles west of Rush Lake. They told him they had found 

 the mar.- and after a few threats and curses they gave tin 

 mar.- up to him. and he reached home tired, having ridden on 

 horseback eighty miles that day. This farm and ranch, con 



HIT of IO.IMMI aeretj is own.-d l>y the < 'anadian Agricultural 

 < 'oinpany. Tln-s- farms. t-n in number, occur at intervals of 

 thirty mil. -s l.,-tu.. ii Kush bik.- ami Calgary. The country 

 around ln-re is specially valuable as a stock -raisin^ district ! 

 is impossible to conceive of a L-tt.-r st, M -k country than that 

 lying U-tweeii tin- Cyprus Hills and the railway. Tin- < 'yprus 

 Hills str.-tch fiom (loose Lake to Medicim- Hat, on the South 



.-.at<-ln-wan l!i\.r. tln-y gradually r is,- to\\aplsthe west. 



